Texstar and the Ripper Gang are pleased to announce the final release of PCLinuxOS 2007. Featuring kernel 2.6.18.8, KDE 3.5.6, Open Office 2.2.0, Firefox 2.0.0.3, Thunderbird 2.0, Frostwire, Ktorrent, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Beryl 3D and much much more. Almost 2 gigs of software compressed on a single self bootable livecd that can be installed to your hard drive provided it is compatible with your system and you like the distribution. Over 5000+ additional packages available after hard drive install through our Synaptic Software Manager. Please note PCLinuxOS does not ship with Win32codes or DVD decryption software. Proprietary Nvidia and ATI drivers available after hard drive install.

In addition we'd like to give out a special thanks to the PCLinuxOS community who stepped up last month to help us out and kept us going. Thank you for all your support and we'll keep working hard to bring you a good Linux distribution you can be proud of. We also want to thank Enki Consulting for providing hosting for our website and ibiblio.org for hosting our distribution.

Sounds good to me. I've got it running on my laptop now, having replaced TR4. Must get around to getting every last thing set up, some time.
I still had to use the dkms-alsa package to get sound though.

On my old rig, I had an FX5200 card. I had problems (occasional lockups, especially in Firefox) with both 97xx drivers. The 100.14 driver was better in play, but brought back an old nvidia problem I had years ago: you couldn't return to framebuffer when leaving the graphical environment. I settled on 96xx which was stable and supports all the Beryl tricks. But not all FX5200 cards are exactly equal, I think mine was particularly cheap and nasty. I know others with FX5200 reported none of the problems I had with the 97xx drivers. I will still be maintaining the old rig, it's now mum-in-law's. She loves it because her old SiS630-based rig was like a snail through treacle in Firefox.

The nvidia drivers drop support for certain cards at certain points, which is why some older ones are still maintained, but I seem to remember sometime during the 8000's the nvidia framebuffer return problem stopped, and the 5200 was well supported at that time, with older cards like that you don't have to go for the latest. My advice is run each of them for a while, and see if any are more stable or run better.

I have new hardware as you can see from my sig, and I have to say, beta or no beta, the nvidia 100.14 driver is just brilliant on the newer cards. Since upgrading my hardware I got 2 temporary lockups using the basic kernel, but since I upgraded to the a64 kernel nothing of the sort. I use the 2.6.20.11-dev kernel from testing.

Check out also the ck-kernels, which have Con Kolivas' unofficial patches, if you have any latency problems with multimedia.

Thanks for that. The first link had it. I was so used the XP driver working, it never occured to me to try the w98 one, and it worked.
A couple of minutes to install realplayer from the default repository and I'm listening to Radio 3 again, another minute for win32-codecs and Classic FM still doesn't work (but that's normal, i'll fiddle with it later).

Also: Nice to see the installer remind me to run chkdsk after resizing an ntfs partition, haven't seen anyone else do that yet (bit of a shock to go straight into the resize after selecting the new partition size, but i suppose i was warned beforehand).

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